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How to Be a Master Entertainer with Lutron Lighting Control

The Right Lighting Helps Make Any Festivity Feel More Special

How to Be a Master Entertainer with Lutron Lighting Control

What makes a party special? Any great host knows that lighting is key to setting the perfect atmosphere for any festivity—right along with the music, food, and company. When lighting is an afterthought, it can make your get-togethers feel lackluster or entirely uncomfortable.

Even during a socially distant season, where parties are reduced to small groups or celebrated virtually, you can create an evening to remember within your Kirkland, WA home with the right lighting controls and fixtures. Below are some key tips on how to enhance the fun for any celebration using Lutron lighting control.

How to Beat the Wait Times for Your Anticipated Smart Home Tech

Plan Your Projects Early with Our Smart Home Consultants

How to Beat the Wait Times for Your Anticipated Smart Home Tech

Over the last several months, products from cars to game consoles to home appliances have hit a supply snag. Tech across all industries, including custom integration, is low in stock but high in demand, making it hard for homeowners to get the products they want—especially as we enter the holiday season.

You might be asking: What’s causing the shortage of popular home technology and AV products in Seattle, WA, and beyond? What can a homeowner do to combat the long wait times for their anticipated projects? Our smart home consultants at Wipliance weigh in below.

How to Create a Tech-Savvy Condo without Compromising Space

Make Your Condo Your Own with Concealed and Clutter-Free Entertainment and Home Automation

How to Create a Tech-Savvy Condo without Compromising Space

Seattle city life provides several advantages over suburbia. Cheaper transportation, bustling nightlife, and eclectic restaurants are just to name a few. Often, however, city condos are smaller and more compact than suburban homes and lack some options for personalization.

Even so, you don’t have to settle for less when it comes to your home entertainment and smart technology needs. Our team at Wipliance can help you design a tech-savvy condo with concealed components, cabling, and controls that add to the beauty and functionality of your space.

Read on to explore our custom design and installation solutions for your home audio system, TV displays, shading, and smart home control keypads.

How to Create an Immersive Outdoor Sound System for Your Backyard

Wipliance Can Deliver a Beautiful Listening Experience for Any Outdoor Living Space

How to Create an Immersive Outdoor Sound System for Your Backyard

As summer approaches, it’s time to take your home entertainment outdoors. Poolside parties, alfresco dining, and stargazing are just a few of the activities that families here in the Mercer Island, Washington area will enjoy this season in their waterfront backyards. No matter how you plan to use your outdoor spaces, make sure not to forget the most important ingredient to any backyard hangout: the music.

With a dedicated outdoor sound system, bring your favorite music to any backyard get-together for amplified fun throughout the season and all year long in Mercer Island. Read below to learn how our team at Wipliance can create an immersive and reliable soundscape throughout your backyard.

How to Elevate Your Home’s Bathroom Lighting

Find the Perfect Solution for Getting Ready or Relaxing After a Long Day

How to Elevate Your Home’s Bathroom Lighting

How do you know if the lighting in your home is doing its job? Like many things in life, you know it’s working when you don’t notice it. Over the years, we’ve talked to many clients about the lighting issues that become a daily annoyance, from glare on the TV to lack of task lighting for homework or doing dishes.

Over the years, though, one area of the home seems to be the biggest culprit: the bathroom. When you stay at a hotel, how often are you surprised about the amount and quality of lighting by the sink or shower? The bathroom has so many unique uses that simple overhead lights just won’t do the job.

So how can you embrace a more elevated lighting design in your bathroom? As a home lighting consultant serving Seattle, WA and the surrounding areas, we have some tips on using layered lighting and color temperature for the perfect illumination every time. You can also check these bathroom lighting tips in action in our video tutorial.

How to Make the Best of the Holiday Season with Control4

Home Automation Brings Loved Ones Together for a Smoother, More Enjoyable Holiday

How to Make the Best of the Holiday Season with Control4

Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays—especially when it’s a smart home. Decorating, shopping, cooking, and hosting are in full swing around Bellevue, WA, making this time of year both wonderful and chaotic. Let Control4 home automation help create a smoother and more enjoyable season for you and the whole family!

Illuminate your home with one-tap lighting scenes, deck the halls with your favorite holiday music, greet guests even while you’re away, and sleep peacefully with whole-home control in the palm of your hand. Learn more about how Control4 can help make this season merry and bright by reading below.

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Award-Winning Light Technology From Ketra for Enhanced Experiences

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We’re always searching for innovative solutions to help our clients in Washington and Arizona live better — especially as the new year begins. But with busy family lives and long work hours, sticking to consistent health routines can be difficult. That’s where Lutron lighting control can help at your home in the Bellevue area or beyond.

With Ketra tunable lighting technology and the power of Lutron’s HomeWorks QS control system, you can experience personalized tunable light in your home at just the touch of your finger. Tunable lighting simulates the sun’s natural light patterns, which regulate important hormones in our bodies that help us sleep better at night and stay active during the day.

Take the first step toward better living this year with Ketra tunable lighting integrated with Lutron’s HomeWorks QS luxury control system. Keep reading to learn more.

Hunter Douglas Shades Now Qualify for Federal Tax Credit

Receive a Tax Credit by Purchasing Energy Efficient Hunter Douglas Duette Honeycomb Window Shades

Hunter Douglas Shades Now Qualify for Federal Tax Credit

Motorized shades offer extreme convenience. With one touch of a button, you can lower or raise every shade in one room or your entire home. They can also be automatically programmed to open and close based on the time of day, the location of the sun, and the temperature in a room. 

These window coverings enhance privacy and security; protect flooring, furniture, and artwork from damaging UV rays; and add beauty and elegance to your home. They can also dramatically reduce energy consumption. 

This last benefit led the federal government to include Hunter Douglas Shades in the federal tax credit supporting the purchase of energy-efficient products. Let’s explore this great opportunity for homeowners in Bellevue, WA.

Illuminate Life’s Precious Moments with Intuitive Lighting

Seattle’s Premier Home Lighting Consultant Ensures Beautiful Indoor & Outdoor Lighting

Illuminate Life’s Precious Moments with Intuitive Lighting

How we illuminate our homes has changed dramatically over the last several years. Gone are the light switches, invented in 1884, and in their place are elegant in-wall custom-engraved keypads and beautiful high-resolution touchscreens.

We no longer light our rooms with soft or bright white lights but with every color in the visible spectrum—millions of shades of precise and pure light at our fingertips. We press the 'Dinner' button, and the lights in the dining area look like candlelight. We touch the ‘Natural Light’ icon, and our lighting reflects the color of the natural world outside, changing as the sun’s light changes.

Working with an expert home lighting consultant can produce the perfect setting for every event and mood while creating a healthier home. Let's look at some of the possibilities for your Seattle, WA, home.

Introducing Lumaris: Lutron’s New Smart Tape Light

The First Professional-Grade Tunable Tape Lighting Solution

Introducing Lumaris: Lutron’s New Smart Tape Light

LED tape lights have become a popular lighting design motif in recent years, appearing in many homes across Washington. The flexible, thin LED strips add a touch of light under cabinets, around mirrors and TVs, and inside bookshelves—virtually anywhere you want. But to date, controlling tape light has been its own issue. There hasn’t been a simple, sophisticated way to intelligently control tape lights—until Lumaris. 

Lumaris is Lutron’s first tape lighting solution that allows users to remotely adjust the color temperature and intensity, creating a range of moods and effects. As a Lutron dealer in the Liberty Lake, WA, area, Wipliance can provide your home with Lutron and other smart lighting solutions

Learn how Lumaris works and get inspired below! 

Marrying Design and Functionality in Smart Window Shades

Experience the Benefits of Working with a Motorized Shading Company and Automation Expert

Marrying Design and Functionality in Smart Window Shades

Walking into a room with sunlight streaming through the windows can almost take your breath away. That’s the power and beauty of natural light. It brings the essence of the outdoor world into our homes while enhancing our well-being. Research shows that getting just an hour of the morning’s natural light can help you sleep better.

This natural light is also a critical component of your home’s design. It reveals the authentic colors, highlights the textures, and provides ambient light. Unfortunately, it can also harm your home’s interior, fading wood floors, furniture, and photographs.

Wipliance, a home automation and motorized shading company serving Redmond, WA, has the answer to this dilemma. Motorized shades automatically adjust throughout the day, letting in diffuse sunlight while protecting your home.

Let’s explore the possibilities.

Professional Lighting Design is the Key to the WOW Factor

Don’t Overlook Illumination or Precise Control in Your Home

Professional Lighting Design is the Key to the WOW Factor

Professional lighting design, elegance, and cutting-edge technology converge to create a living experience like no other. Amidst the furnishings and interior design, one element plays a pivotal role in setting the tone for these extraordinary residential spaces—lighting design.

In this blog, we’ll explore the secret ingredient that elevates homes in Bellevue, WA, and nationwide to a whole new level to achieve the ultimate wow factor! Keep reading to learn more.

Renovating Your Home? Plan for Smart Home Integration

How to Incorporate Smart Lighting, Audio, & Security in Your Smart Home Renovation

Renovating Your Home? Plan for Smart Home Integration

Are you ready to reimagine your living spaces and make your home truly 'smart'? The potential is endless: imagine music flowing through your house in sync, from the kitchen to the backyard. Picture security cameras perched by your front door, accessible via your tablet, all while you control your lights and music through a single app. 

In a world increasingly dominated by wireless technology, the allure of adding a smart system to your home is enticing. But here's the catch: wireless tech, though convenient, can be unreliable and vulnerable to outside intrusions. Robust smart systems can sometimes overwhelm your Wi-Fi bandwidth, causing you to lose connection to your Internet of Things (IoT). 

The smart choice? Wiring your home with a professional integrator who specializes in smart home renovations. Whether you're building a new house, undergoing a major renovation, or simply upgrading your existing space in Bellevue, WA, partnering with a smart home installer can be a game-changer. 

So, what sets a smart home installer apart? Let's delve into the details.

Seamless Style: The Aesthetic Appeal of Motorized Window Treatments

Elevate Your Home’s Aesthetic with Modern Motorized Window Treatments from Wipliance

Seamless Style: The Aesthetic Appeal of Motorized Window Treatments

Motorized window treatments play a role in modern home design by helping bring ambiance and comfort to life in your space. With many options available to today’s homeowners, motorized shades and window treatments are innovative while offering privacy, style, and functionality. 

Motorized shades installed by Wipliance can be effortlessly controlled with the touch of a button or a voice command, ensuring that your smart home’s systems sync throughout your space. Read on to learn more!

Smart Home Living Versus Your Personal Concierge

Discover the Answers to Common Questions Regarding Home Control Systems

Smart Home Living Versus Your Personal Concierge

The first smartphone came out in 1992, and it was big. It could send and receive emails and faxes. Fast forward, and we can stream videos, have dozens of apps, and take incredible photographs. The original smartphone has gone the way of the dinosaur.

Why the smartphone history? It’s a little like home control systems. Technology is advancing rapidly, and keeping up with it requires close ties to the industry. At Wipliance, we’ve witnessed this incredible expansion firsthand, starting in the industry 18 years ago. What’s possible now, compared to then, is truly miraculous. 

If you integrated smart home control in its infancy, it may be time for an upgrade. If you have yet to take the plunge, consider the added convenience and enjoyment you’ll get to experience. 

So, let’s look at the concerns many people face when considering smart home living and the answers found in today’s technology.